“In all these ways, we need to recall and recover our own identity. Americans have a great advantage: To renew our country, we only need to remember our values’’ Bush said in a speech hosted by his institute in New York.

Bush denounced “nationalism distorted into nativism” and stressed the importance of immigration to the U.S.

Trump has sought to restrict immigration, pushing for a wall along the U.S Mexican border and calling for other restrictions.

He also pushed back against Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, calling it a “sustained attempt by a hostile power to feed and exploit our country’s divisions” and said such attacks should not be tolerated.